Sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Argentina, we welcome Waléria Américo who will be an artist-in-residence during August and she’ll continue developing the project Amplitud – Falla (amplitude – flaw).
Américo’s experimentation goes from video, photography, intervention to the research between the body and its surroundings, exploring the relations between habitation and migration.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Amplitude is an ongoing project that searches to explore the matter and loudness temporality using the body as moving instrument aiming to find pictures and images.This project arises from the migratory experience from Fortaleza to Lisbon, its inaugural object is the construction of a set of scores through sequenced air pressured shots over white sheets of paper. The holes left by the bullets are transformed into loose musical notes. These scores have become triggers to objects and performing actions surrounded by questions like: How can we find sound in those spaces formed by the bullet shots? Is it possible to share those scores with others? How?, How can the actions experienced during those variations be drawn or represented?

I am interested in researching the power of ongoing re-composition and re-writing of the same musical score. These variations and scatterings are produced by a series of meetings with people (musicians, geologists) and places (cities). This also shows the political dimension of my research. On the one hand, I have the open matter and on the other the qualifications over the work works against ambiguity. It is a minimal matter that allows to explore the limitless movement/shift, what can not be captured.